- Software and hardware reliability, testing, verification, and validation
- Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools
- Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems
- Software aging and rejuvenation
- Safety-critical systems and software
- Architecture and system design for dependability
- Fault-tolerant algorithms and protocols
- Reliability in cloud computing, Internet, and web systems and applications
- Cloud and Internet Information security
- Dependability issues in computer networks and communications
- Dependability issues in distributed and parallel systems
- Dependability issues in real-time systems, database, and transaction processing systems
- Dependability issues in autonomic computing
- Dependability issues in aerospace and embedded systems
- Dependability issues in cyber-physical systems
- Dependability issues in socio-technical systems